Monthly Archives: January 2024

Go: What we got right, what we got wrong

Posted on 2024-01-04 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: It pleases me that Rob's technical successes #1 and #2 are "Formal Specification" and "Competing Implementations" which are things whose absence I find concerning about a bunch of younger languages.
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AMD Proposes an FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface for Linux

Posted on 2024-01-04 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Oh man yes please. The current tooling for connecting the PL and PS of their FPGASoC parts (plumbing between PetaLinux and Vivado) are a shitfight.
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Welcome to the public domain, Mickey Mouse

Posted on 2024-01-01 by pappp

Source: The Verge - All Posts

Article note: Linking this among the many similar articles I skimmed, because it's the most up-front about copyright being an exchange of _temporary_ exclusive rights in return for ensuring things remain permanently available to society, which has been subverted by "lobbying" (read:bribery) for decades.
A screenshot of Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie from 1928.
Just be careful not to let major elements from later designs slip in. | Disney

It’s finally happened: after nearly a century, Mickey Mouse has slipped off Disney’s copyright leash. The first versions of the iconic cartoon character, seen in Steamboat Willie and a silent version of Plane Crazy, enter the public domain in the US on January 1st, 2024. (An early version of Minnie Mouse is also fortunately included.) There’s still a complicated mess of protections around Mickey, but today is a moment public domain advocates have awaited for decades — and there are plenty of other exciting new entries as well.

Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, as usual, has a roundup of prominent works whose copyright protections lapse in the US today. The list includes sound recordings from 1923 and works in...

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